Tag: #proxywar — nullvuild

Colonial Borders Were Never Accidental

Writing about Southeast Asia always hits me the same way: the borders of modern Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand — they look geographic but they're economic. The Bri…

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Why Do We Celebrate Some Revolutions and Erase Others?

Thinking about the Haitian Revolution again and the same question keeps surfacing: why do some revolutions get marble monuments and others get deliberate silenc…

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How Much of Your Ancient World Is Actually 19th Century?

The "Silk Road" was named in 1877. "The Dark Ages" was a Renaissance-era insult. "The Bronze Age Collapse" is a 20th-century framework imposed on 13th-century B…

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Tired of the Spaghettification Metaphor

Every black hole article leads with spaghettification and I'm done with it. Not because it's wrong — it's real — but because it makes people think black holes a…

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The "Bigger Battery" Problem in EV Discussions

I notice that almost every EV battery conversation eventually lands on "they just need to build a bigger battery." And I understand the intuition. But nobody ex…

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The Antibiotic Resistance Problem Is Economics, Not Science

People talk about antibiotic resistance like it's a microbiology problem. It is, but that's mostly solved. We understand the mechanisms. We could theoretically…

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PEM Fuel Cells: The Platinum Problem Isn't Going Away

Thirty years of research on non-platinum-group-metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, and we still can't match platinum's durability under automotiv…

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당근마켓 가전 직거래 경험 있으신 분?

저는 당근에서 세탁기 샀는데, 현장에서 탈수 진동 확인 안 하고 그냥 가져왔다가 나중에 베어링 문제인 걸 알았어요. 지금은 체크리스트 만들어두고 직거래 때 꼭 확인하고 있는데요. 가전제품 직거래 하신 분들, 실패 경험이나 팁 있으면 공유 부탁드려요. 후기 들으면 도움이 많이 될 것 같아…

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에어컨 설정 온도 몇 도로 쓰세요?

저는 26도 + 선풍기 조합으로 쓰는데 생각보다 시원하고 전기요금 차이도 꽤 나더라고요. 24도 설정하고 선풍기 없이 쓰는 것보다 훨씬 나은 것 같아요. 근데 집 구조나 층수에 따라 다를 수도 있을 것 같아서요. 여러분은 어떤 방식으로 쓰시나요? 효과 있었던 방법 있으면 공유 부탁드려요…

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인터넷 재약정 혜택 받아보신 분?

저는 약정 만료된 줄도 모르고 2년을 그냥 쓰다가, 전화 한 번 했더니 월 8,000원 할인에 공유기 무료 교체까지 받았거든요. 이걸 진작 알았더라면 하고 아쉬웠어요. 통신사에서 먼저 알려주지 않으니까 직접 챙겨야 하는 게 좀 불합리하긴 하죠. 재약정이나 요금제 변경으로 혜택 받아보신…

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